Journalist Quotes

Ernest Hemingway

George Orwell

Heinrich Heine

Jack London

Daniel Defoe

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Emma Goldman

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.

William S. Paley

Wounds which do extensive bone and nerve damage are not good for writers, nor anybody else.

Ernest Hemingway

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

Henry Morton Stanley

Washington, D. C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.

Gerald W. Johnson

What no wife of a writer can ever understand, no matter if she lives with him for twenty years, is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Anthony Sampson

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.

Richard Harding Davis

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger we face today.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

Patrick MacGill

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gerald Priestland

Cricket is the most senior, widespread and deeply rooted of English games.

In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of information, which he cannot divulge by phone. By the time the hero arrives at the place where they had arranged to meet, the caller is dead, or too near death to tell. There is never an explanation for the reluctance of the caller to impart his message in the first place.

In every career, your job is to make and tell stories, of course. You will build a body of work, but you will also build a body of affection, with the people you've helped who've helped you back.

Robert Krulwich

He was going to die, and who knows that it could be in that same night? What crime had he committed in his entire life? None. He has carried all his life with the mirage of studying his nation, loving it, intending to contribute to its happiness and prosperity. He has spent all his adolescence in this project, and all his virility too. And now, in his elder ages, how did life return him this favor? Killing him!